Brittany Schaefer reports- A new report by the Research Bureau is looking at ways to tackle littering and dumping in Worcester.

Worcester should not trash its Pay As You Throw trash collection model and, no, a return to the days of pigs eating the city’s garbage is probably not the way to go. Instead, as the city struggled to clean up its streets and sidewalks, and deal with illegal dumping, more stringent penalties for violators could help. A free trash drop-off site might also boost compliance.

One of the most significant and most contentious actions the City Council takes every year is just around the corner, and while the city does not yet even have the information it needs to provide for debate, the battle lines are being drawn.

In a joint research effort published by the Worcester Business Journal, the WBJ and Worcester Regional Research Bureau report that immigrants are more likely than native citizens to start their own businesses and obtain bachelor's degrees. They make up 36 percent of the business owners in Worcester, New England's second-largest city.

There are so many ways that I disagree with Donald Trump. For example, he demonizes immigrants, and I think immigration is the bedrock of America.

CITY OF IMMIGRANTS: Love, love, love this research project by the Worcester Business Journal and Worcester Regional Research Bureau. Released earlier this week, the study shows foreign-born Worcester residents are more likely than native citizens to own businesses and have bachelors degrees.

The Worcester Research Bureau has released its latest report “The Immigrant Entrepreneur in Worcester.”

WORCESTER – About 36 percent of Worcester’s 2,050 entrepreneurs were born outside the United States, according to a new report from a local public policy research group.

When the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce and the city of Worcester held a focus group for immigrant businesses this summer, they found many foreign-born entrepreneurs weren't as connected as they could be to resources and had a hard time navigating the agencies available to help them.

For a century starting in the 1870s, immigrants moving into Worcester almost exclusively came from Europe and North America.